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James Volz Interview, Former WSU Student/Alum, Department of Theatre Arts at Wright State University Wright State University CORE Scholar Wright State University Retirees Association Oral History Project University Archives 1-16-2018 James Volz Interview, Former WSU Student/Alum, Department of Theatre Arts at Wright State University Abe J. Bassett Wright State University - Main Campus, [email protected] James Volz Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/archives_retirees Part of the Oral History Commons Repository Citation Bassett, A. J., & Volz, J. (2018). James Volz Interview, Former WSU Student/Alum, Department of Theatre Arts at Wright State University. https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/archives_retirees/34 This Interview is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wright State University Retirees Association Oral History Project by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY Retiree Association Oral History Project Interview date: 1/16/2018 Interviewer: Abe Bassett (AB) Professor Emeritus, Department of Theatre Arts Interviewee: James Volz (JV) Former WSU Student/Alum, Department of Theatre Arts Abe Bassett: This is Abe Bassett, Professor Emeritus, Department of Theatre Arts, and current member of the Wright State University Retiree’s Association. Today is Tuesday, January 16, 2018, and it is my pleasure to be interviewing Jim Volz, James T. Volz, former Theatre Arts student and Wright State alum, as part of the Retiree Association’s Oral History Project. Jim, thank you for being with us today. Jim Volz: I’m glad to be here, Abe. Thanks for inviting me. AB: Good. Well, you are a naïve of Dayton, are you not? JV: I am, I’m a Dayton boy, through and through. Even though I left in 1975, which would be over 40 years ago, I will always be a Dayton boy. AB: Right. And you came to Wright State in what year? JV: 1971. I graduated from Carroll High School, all Catholic schools, St. Helen’s, Holy Family, in Dayton, Ohio. We grew up near 3rd St., near downtown Dayton, and then we moved into Mad River Twp. where we had choices of a lot of different schools, and graduating from Carroll High School, great academic program at Carroll, and Wright State just looked like the place to be. AB: Okay, and let’s see, graduating in ’95 [1975], and I will say for our viewers that you’ve had a 25, 27 year history as a Professor of Theatre at Cal State-Fullerton, which is a very well esteemed theatre school, and an illustrious career, and we’ll talk a little about that, but I want to talk about you coming to Wright State. You were a product of Catholic elementary and high schools, so was there pressure on you to attend the University of Dayton? JV: There was pressure to attend the University of Dayton, more pressure to attend Notre Dame, because there were a number of family members that had graduated from Notre Dame, and I was pretty clear that I was done with nuns and priests, and in 1971 when I graduated from Carroll High School I was looking for a more public experience. I wanted to be in a big school, a big state school, and I wanted the anonymity that came with being 1 at a big state school, and what I perceived as an 18 year old as the freedom of being at a large state school, and Wright State had a reputation through Ohio State and Miami in its original collaboration, and my brother went to Wright State University and I knew it was a great school, and I came out here and said, ‘Well, I’ll check out Wright State’. I had planned to go to other universities, and in the final run I decided I was going to stay home and live at home with my family, and attend Wright State, and be an English major. That was the plan. AB: Well, I just want to put this on the record, your father worked at the Wright-Patt Air Base and he had a responsible job and presumably made decent money, so he could have helped you go to Ohio State or Bowling Green. JV: Absolutely. Yeah, my little brother went to Ohio State, and I could have gone really anywhere from the point of view of between scholarships to- I had scholarships to Yale, I had scholarships to Ball State, I had scholarships to go to Case Western at the time. There were options in terms of financial aid packages to go just about anywhere. But again, I decided I wanted to try out Wright State, and I wasn’t sure that I was going to stay here for all four years, but I decided it was the place to start my college career. AB: Well, you did stay. What was it that kept you here? JV: I was hooked within three months of coming to Wright State University. I loved the youth of the university, meaning that this was a university that was breaking out into its own self right before your eyes, and the opportunities for students would be unimaginable today. I mean, you had a chance to run major programs. I ran a film series when I was here, I ran an international artists and lecture series as a student; with a faculty advisor, but the students made the decisions on tens of thousands of dollars of funding. I had the opportunity to work for the university newspaper and study journalism, and have a newspaper editor as a mentor, and eventually, thanks to you, the opportunity to work as a theatre critic and as a theatre writer, and eventually develop a career as a theatre historian and researcher. So, yes! AB: Technically, what were your majors? JV: I graduated with a BA in English, and a BA in Theatre, so I had two separate degrees. AB: What were some of your outstanding classes and professors that were memorable? JV: The ones that really stand out to me before I plunged into theatre, I remember having I think it was Gary Hollingsworth, Dr. Hollingsworth was a fabulous professor who actually invited us into his home, so it made a real impression. He was passionate in the classroom, but he wanted to get to know all of his students individually, and that was impressive for a university the size of Wright State University, to be invited into a home and to have a formal dinner with a professor and his wife and their guests. That always had an impression on me. And Cecile Cary was my first Shakespeare teacher, and one of 2 my titles as being a scholar and the pre-eminent scholar in terms of the understanding of Shakespeare festivals around the world, and that all started in Cecile Cary’s class, when she would come into the class dressed in Shakespearean costumes to teach Romeo and Juliet and Richard III and Pericles, and made such an impression on us as opposed to getting Shakespeare off the page and getting it on the stage. But certainly my life took a whole different turn when you approached me and said, ‘What are you doing in the English Department? You need to come over here to the Theatre Department. We need more men in Theatre, and I want you to consider Theatre as a major’, and you set up an appointment with me, you tracked me down after a class and asked me to come visit with you. So I thought, ‘Well, why not? I’ll check it out’ So I started auditioning for shows, and had baby parts in Taming of the Shrew, and helped to open the Creative Arts Center with The Time of Your Life, and Celebration: The Musical, and then started writing and working in the business management of the theatre for Alan Yaffe and for you, and discovered a whole other area of theatre that was much more interesting to me. I thought I wanted to be an actor, but I never wanted to be an actor. I never had the patience to put up with directors and with other people making all of the creative decisions for you. I thought I wanted to be a director, that’s where you control everything, then I learned that directors don’t really control things in professional theatre, because somebody else assigns them the shows that they are going to direct. So eventually I decided I wanted to be a producer, and Wright State taught me how to be a theatre producer, and taught me how to organize my life and time through the theatre, because you have deadlines, you have opening nights, you have a series of tasks that must be done to produce a theatre production, and by learning that I learned how to shape all of my life activities- my family, the rest of my personal life, my academic activities, my research activities- as if it was an opening night. I had these deadlines, these responsibilities, and of course theatre is all collaboration and human resources, so the Theatre faculty, Abe Bassett and company, Bob Hetherington, along the way a few other faculty that gave me experiences I couldn’t have gotten at a larger university, or frankly I would not have gotten at a small liberal arts school, because they wouldn’t have had the equipment or the resources or the size of faculty to give me the opportunities. You know, I was vacuum-forming scenery for The Time of Your Life, and I was sewing costumes for five different productions, because if you got cast, you had to make your own costume from scratch if you wanted a costume on stage, and help other people make costumes.
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